Kendade
Hall
The heart of a new
unified science center, Kendade is a four-story, 40,000-square-foot
building that connects the existing Carr and Clapp laboratories
and Shattuck and Cleveland halls. Kendade houses classrooms, faculty
offices, and laboratories, including labs dedicated to molecular
biology and genetics, advanced physics, and optics. Completed
in 2003, the $36-million science center provides 116,000 gross
square feet of new and renovated space and is home to eight departments:
biological sciences, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, mathematics,
astronomy, earth and environment, and computer science.
The most striking
feature of Kendade's interior, a four-story atrium, is also a
key component in the College's efforts to encourage greater interaction
and more permeable boundaries among the sciences. The walls of
the atrium literally provide windows onto laboratory work being
done in the various sciences, while the 3,000-square-foot atrium
serves as a meeting place for the entire community.
The largest campus
building project since the renovation and expansion of Williston
Library in the early 1990s, the science center attracted several
of the largest gifts in Mount Holyoke's history, including an
anonymous $10-million naming gift for Kendade. The center was
designed and built to meet high standards for a wide variety of
measures in the areas of sustainable technologies and practices.
The standards conform to Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) criteria for a “green building” as established
by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
The building was designed
by the firm of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering,
P.C., which specializes in the design of environments for colleges
and universities with an emphasis on science and technology and
sustainable design.
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